Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon X4 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1570 points
0.32% slightly better overall score
1565 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3092 points
5% slightly better gaming score
2930 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1169 points
1186 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1123 points
1136 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2359 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1542 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1201 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
621 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
27% slightly lower TDP
65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

790th of 1,089
792nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i3
Athlon X4

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i3-6100 vs Athlon X4 950 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 950 is faster than the Core i3-6100. Despite this, the Core i3-6100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon X4 950. A Core i3-6100 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 950 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-6100

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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